Oral history interview with Hazel Young, Alicia Alexander, Daisy Punch and Margaret Davis Calhoun, 1986 May 12.

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Young, Hazel, 1905-. Oral history interview with Hazel Young, Alicia Alexander, Daisy Punch and Margaret Davis Calhoun, 1986 May 12.

Oral history interview with Hazel Young, Alicia Alexander, Daisy Punch and Margaret Davis Calhoun, 1986 May 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/316799032

A joint interview with his daughters: Alexander, Alice (b. 1908), Punch, Daisy (b. ca. 1910), and Young, Hazel (b. 1905). Also included in the interview is Calhoun, Margaret Davis (b. ca. 1910) Their reminiscences about the history of the African-American sections of Denton, Texas, 1910-85, and remembrances about their father, Frederick Douglass Moore, a renowned African-American educator in Denton, 1915-50. The original African- American section, "Quakertown," and its origins; their early family history; Fred Moore's barbershop; appointment of Fred Moore as principal of Frederick Douglass Colored School, 1915; removal of African Americans from "Quakertown" to southeast Denton; tidbits of the Moore family history; Alexander and Young's teaching careers; their jobs at the Davis Hotel; recreational activities of African-American children before desegregation; church activities.

45 leaves ; 29 cm.

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